The Irish standard., 1887-12-10

,ISH STAN DA ! a ! ARD:: !: sA II
CITY BRIEFS &
Commissioner Lennon has returned
home from Chicago after brief busl
.Iness visit. 5, #.
j. b. Quinn has removed his lav
lofhce from the Boston Block to 3
Washington avenue south. tt..
i The Holy Name society will receive
communion in a body at Holy Rosary
church tomorrow Sunday morning al
4 8 o'clock.
A The Republican National Convention
will be held at Chicago June 19, next
Minneapolis received eight votes fol
the convention.
The officers of all Total Abstinence
societies i'll the city will hold join,
meeting Sunday, December 18th, at
| Catholic Association Hall.
Rev. P. A. Dinahan has been ap-
pointed chaplain of Division Nc. 2, A.
@. H., instead of Rev. James McGol-
rick, as announced last week.
Go to the fair at Market III II next
week, it may be the last opportunity
to attend fair in Minneapolis. Help
the Sisters Of st. Joseph in worthy
cause.
| J. j. Mullane has been appointed
president of Division No. 2, a. O. H..
to succeed John Dinneen resigned. S.
j. McNulty succeeds to the Vice Presi-
dency.
M. w. Lewis, young colored man,
+! has been appointed to a position in
the register of deeds Office. He has
been mailing clerk on the Mime
apolis and Pacific.
Number Of fatal cases of diphther1a
seems increasing. Within two weeks
three children of Samuel King, fore
man of the Minneapolis harvester
works have died.
The case of the Barrett brothers in
dicted for the murder of 'io.lefson,
the street car driver, by the grand jury,
is being tried in the district court as
We go to press. w. III. Douahue is at
torney for the defense.
AID. Cloutier is preparing an ordin-
ance to be submitted next week to the
proper Council committee making it
incumbent on all property owners to
keep their sidewalks clean, failing to
do SO to be punishable by fine.
The regular weekly drill Of the Hi
herman Rifles will hereafter be held
at Window Hall on Monday evenings
instead of "Wednesday as heretofore,
and the election of officers OF the corn-
panv for another year will be held
next Monday evening.
The two new fire stations, on
Fourth street and Fifteenth avenue
south, and Fourth street and Twenty
first avenue north, will probably be
ready by the new year. There will be
nine new pieces of fire apparatus and
60 new men ON the force.
Richard Powers, a laborer, was found
dead in his bed, at the lodging house,
106 Hennepin avenue, Sunday after
noon. He went to his room Saturday,
and WAS not seen again until found
as above. His wife and two sons and
a daughter live in East Minneapolis.
William Lawler, empl Dyed in the
Milwaukee elevator on the Hastings
and Dakota tracks near Grand avenue,
was killed Wednesday morning. He
was walking ON board which was
stretched across a wheat bin when it
broke precipitat,ng him 70 feet, break
ing his legs and spine and causing in
slant death. His remains were taken
to Fond du Lac, Wis, for burial.
On Thursday the feast of the Imma.
culate Conception was celebrated with
impressive ce, emonies in the various
churches of the city. AT the Church of
the Immaculate Conception solemn
high mass was celebrated with SER
mon by Father Corbett. In the eve
ming there were vespers and benedic-
tion of the blessed sacrament at 7:90
o'clock, and procession formed bv the
children Of the Holy Angels Sodality
and the Sodality OF the Blessed Virgin.
RANDOM SHOTS.
A Presbyterian minister named Bur.
rill lectured here the other evening on
Ireland and is reported to have said
that the three greatest evils from which
that country is suffering are rum, mis-
rule and landlord absenteeism, the
first and greatest of all being rum.
That is very serious charge, indeed,
to bring against a gallant nation strug-
Cling for political liberty against its